The Basrah and Arabian Gulf Studies Center at the University of Basrah organized a seminar on the Russian position on the ISIS occupation of Mosul from 2014-2017.
The seminar, in which Dr. Alaa Razak Fadel lectured, aims to clarify the role played by the Russian Federation in supporting Iraq in its war against ISIS.
The seminar discussed the military aid that Iraq received from the Russians to eliminate this terrorist organization, despite Russia not joining the international coalition formed by the United States on September 10, 2014, to eliminate ISIS in Syria and Iraq due to the Russian government accusing the United States of implementing geopolitical goals pushing for changing the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.